The world’s wealthiest people became $37 billion richer on Monday as markets soared, undoing all November losses in one session. Their combined net worth on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index rose 0.9% from Friday’s close to $4.4 trillion in afternoon trading.

Among the Podesta emails released today, one of the more interesting disclosures comes from a March 17 email from John Podesta to hdr29@hrcoffice.com, aka Hillary Clinton, which laid out a list of potential Vice Presidential nominees for Hillary. The list of 39 names, "organized in rough food groups,” with regard to their gender, race or career; includes some interesting names...

Bill Gates once famously said that we systematically overestimate the change that will occur in two years, while underestimating the change that will come in the next ten. As Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, the ongoing conversation about the death of legacy media definitely fits that mold.

The dollar amounts are so staggering, that simply telling you how much money humans have created probably wouldn’t convey the magnitude. However, by using data visualization in this video, we can relate numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions to create the context to make it more understandable...

"Despite Norwegian mainstream media and political establishment support for Hillary Clinton (They also supported Mark Rubio and Bernie Sanders when they were running), I would like to apologize for our politicians and voice my support for Trump. I believe that Americans need to think about what is at stake from lifelong socialists’ perspective. Despite what people read about Norway being the best place to live, it comes with a price."

“[T]he long run meets the present [where] systems that no longer pay their way exhaust their credit and go broke. The Breaking Point is a nonlinear departure on the road to nowhere. It occurs when collateral collapses, burying the public’s faith in fiat money and the institutions that create and regulate it.”

In 2015, the government stole so much private property from its citizens that the total amount exceeded the value of all property stolen by every thief and felon in America combined. But it turns out that was all just Phase 1 when Civil Asset Forfeiture was a type of ‘passive’ theft. Now we find out that federal agencies, led by the DEA, are now actively stalking Americans to figure out what they can seize...